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In 2012 and 2013, two productions of the Hijabi Monologues, an American theatre project featuring the stories of Muslim women, were staged in Ireland. This essay considers their relationship to state-sponsored and community-led interculturalism [...]Article
Pat Kinevane's solo performances focus on identities constituted on the margins of contemporary Irish society. Fusing the comic with the tragic, improvisation with carefully planned execution, and entertainment with serious cultural critique, th[...]Article
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The paper examines Tom Murphy’s play The Wake and the significance of its staging as part of the Abbey Theatre’s 1916 centenary “Waking the Nation” programme. The play critiques the process by which various elements of capitalism – in particular[...]
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David CLARE, Publishing director ; Fiona McDonagh, Publishing director ; Justine Nakase, Publishing director | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press | 2021
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David CLARE, Publishing director ; Fiona McDonagh, Publishing director ; Justine Nakase, Publishing director | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press | 2021
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The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel’s plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply [...]Article
This article argues that Teresa Deevy’s early plays for the Abbey Theatre deliberately intervened in the cultural politics of the Irish Free State. While the focus here is on Temporal Powers(1932), Deevy’s first twoAbbey productions, The Reape[...]Article
The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, dont la première se déroula à l’Abbey Theatre en 1997, trouve son origine dans une commande du théâtre national visant à célébrer le centenaire de la sortie de prison d’Oscar Wilde. Cette œuvre singulière (Tho[...]Article
This article investigates how William Butler Yeats’s interest in, and professional engagement with, modern dance affected the dramaturgical composition of his plays. Instead of focusing on individual dancers’contributions to the dance plays’ pre[...]Article
This essay draws upon the work of Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, and Germaine Greer to consider the #MeToo movement and its reflection in the work of the author’s students and the scandal at Dublin’s Gate Theatre. Taking competing conceptions of fre[...]Article
The 2019 Lyric Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival co-production of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907), directed by Oonagh Murphy, encouraged an abstract reading of the play in new political contexts. Set in the 1980s at the D[...]
